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The Temple of Hathor at Dendara

A checkpoint on the way to Dendara. Check out the huge portrait of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. These things are all over Egypt...can you say cult of personality?

Date: 04/30/2005

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The drive on the way to Dendara

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_entrance

The entrance to the Temple of Hathor, the Egyptian goddess of fertility. This was started near the end of the reign of the Egyptian pharaohs. Construction was continued under the Ptolemies and completed by the Romans.

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_ruins

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_columns_hathor

Columns with the face of Hathor

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_cleopatra

A relief of Cleopatra with Ptolemy XV, aka Caesarion, her son by Julius Caesar.

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_ceiling

Ceiling

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_ceiling_2

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_ceiling_3

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_crypt

The crypt beneath the temple

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_crypt_2

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_passage

The little passageway we had to squeeze through to get into the crypt

Date: 04/30/2005

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Me inside the crypt

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_crypt_lindsay_2

Self portrait inside the crypt

Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_crypt_reliefs

Touching a relief in the crypt...uhhh oh

Date: 04/30/2005

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Date: 04/30/2005

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Date: 04/30/2005

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dendara_destroyed_reliefs

Early Christians destroyed most of the reliefs inside the temple because the Egyptian gods were pagans and all that stuff. Whatever, it would have been nice to see them before they were destroyed!